Yesterday I had a profound trip on 50 grams of yellow caapi and 2.5 grams of mimosa hostilis root bark powder. The trip was heavy on harmalas and low on DMT so I stayed quite a bit on the lower levels of DMT consciousness which was quite educational.
Many people say you should avoid the 10-15 mg doses of DMT when vaping or smoalking since you may end up on a rather unpleasant state of consciousness where these cartoonish images with mischievous faces pop up. This is also the level one usually has to go through in the come up of the DMT experience if taking higher doses.
Yesterday I got the privilege to explore this state for a longer time than usual. I was mentally unusually well prepared and spent time in meditation, so this time I wasn't afraid of the images and I think I understood a bit better what it is about.
It's remarkable how we can understand cartoons which present all kinds of emotions and actions with just a few exaggerated lines. I remember thinking yesterday that maybe Platon was right about the ideas being first and the manifested world just reflects those ideas. I think this low level of DMT consciousness is the level of artistry and artistic archetypes. It's the realm of trickster gods, because everything is possible there. What makes is confusing and anxiety provoking is that it shows us all kinds of things and images that can exist but we are not familiar with in our everyday reality. That's where the artists draw from I think.
I think I got a little further in experiencing that world less threatening. It's a world of imagination which you can observe and pick up what you think is meaningful when you give up of fear.
I had actually one funny experience last night. I have scheduled one meeting for early morning next week and I have been a bit stressed about it since I don't want to mess my sleep cycle.
When I was thinking about it, I saw all kinds of very graphic images telling me "keep away, don't enter here". It had a jestery feeling with it. I think there were some middle fingers pointing at me and such, as to use every symbol and emotion imaginable to absolutely keep me away from scheduling meetings on early mornings. For some time I was like whoah, I screwed up. But then the imagery was so exaggerated that I just had to tell myself, that come on, it's certainly not that serious, it's just my fear manifesting. As I said that those images immediately faded and didn't come back and my worry about having to wake up earlier than usual subsided.
I believe the deeper you go, the more sentient the entities become and the more spiritual connectedness you feel, but there's still much uncharted territory for me.